Ruddles County (Greene King)

Name: Ruddles County
Label: "Proper country ale"
Brewery: Greene King
ABV: 4.7%

Rating: Tastes great. Used to be brewed in Rutland (the land of mammalian sexual activity).

Game: No new games for a while, so achievement whoring Mafia II and replaying Dante's Inferno at the moment. Dante's Inferno still looks and plays great. It's the only game ever that you'll be able to see babies with scythes for arms climbing out of a giant Cleopatra's puss filled nipples. Yes, it's as horrible as it sounds.

Manchester Brown Ale (Joseph Holt)

Name: Manchester Brown Ale
Label: "A smooth traditional ale from Manchester's heartland"
Brewery: Joseph Holt
ABV: 3.8%

Rating: Quoting the label on the back "said to be the 'taste of coming home' by many a wanderer from the North West".

Game: Immediately disappointed with Darksiders unfortunately. Think I was expecting some kind of Dante's Inferno awesomeness but it's nowhere near.  Gave it a good go yesterday though and it's definitely picking up.  Still not convinced that the graphics are much cop, again comparing to Dante's Inferno (which incidentally has razor sharp visuals which look fantastic in glorious HD). Jury's still out.

Original Oak Aged Beer (Innis & Gunn)

Name: Original Oak Aged Beer
Label: "Brewed in small batches - Smooth Scottish Beer with hints of toffee, vanilla and oak."
Brewery: Innis & Gunn
ABV: 6.6%

Rating: Probably one of the best beers I've ever had the pleasure of tasting. Wish they'd given it a better name, and why the small bottle?

Game: Playing Bioshock 2 in small bursts just to slog it through to the end. Back playing Dante's Inferno again. It's a joy to play through the nine circles of Hell, it feels welcoming somehow, like I've returned home. Some more achievements to be had as well. Here's my review over at frugalgaming.co.uk. Don't forget to follow @FrugalGaming on Twitter. They is well awesome.

Wychcraft (Wychwood)

Name: Wychcraft
Label: "Thrice hopped for flavour"
Brewery: Wychwood
ABV: 4.5%

Rating: Different version bottled for the European market judging by the label. WTF?? Nice one Aldi.

Game: Unsurprisingly, there's a lot of God / Satan related content in Dante's Inferno. God really isn't real by the way, here's some proof (check the death toll stats).  However, if by some freak cosmic irony he does actually exist and I get to meet him then he's got a heck of a lot of explaining to do. And he better talk quick or else I'm going to rip his f*cking spine out.  Talking of ripping people's spines out, Aliens Vs Predator is a game definitely gracing my collection shortly.  Watch this space for a review.

Moonraker (J.W. Lees)

Name: Moonraker
Label: "Strong ale"
Brewery: J.W. Lees
ABV: 7.5%

Rating: Not named after the excellent Roger Moore Bond movie unfortunately, named after farm workers who once tried to rake the moon's reflection from a Middleton stream... nowadays they get jobs in middle-management.

Game: Finished Dante's Inferno clocking in at just under 12 hours gameplay.  Completely wussed out and had to take on Lucifer on the easier setting because the wrong ass was getting severely kicked.  A now definite, 8/10 overall score. Great job Visceral Games, looking forward to part two.

Golden Sheep (Black Sheep)

Name: Golden Sheep
Label: "Fine Pale Ale"
Brewery: Black Sheep
ABV: 4.7%

Rating: Why is the plural of sheep, sheep when it should be sheeps?

Game: Dante's Inferno isn't nearly as annoying as it had the potential to be. There's a handy feature whereby your health slowly increases each time you die so you never feel you really do have to abandon all hope ye who enter here. Come on Lucifer, you bring Beatrice and I'll bring the pain.  The game definitely rates 8/10 at least. WTF does Gamespot know anyway... quite a lot normally but a bit harsh on this one. A good song to have on whilst playing Dante's Inferno - Still Sane by Illdisposed.

 Meanwhile Bioshock 2 isn't getting a look in *sad face*.

Unicorn (Robinsons)

Name: Unicorn
Label: "Brewing excellence - Robinsons legendary Unicorn has been recognised as the standard for quality beers for over 170 years"
Brewery: Robinsons
ABV: 4.3%

Rating: Thankfully has nothing to do with that sh*t Dungeons & Dragons cartoon from the 80's.

Game: Well into Dante's Inferno now - its one of those games that gets really f*cking annoying after awhile. Trying to make platform jumps in 3D scrolling environments gets tricky at times, resulting in certain segments needing to be replayed over and over and over and over and over again. Still good though but want to play Mass Effect 2 again...  Speaking of Mass Effect 2, here's my review: www.frugalgaming.co.uk/?p=14589

Dandelion (Badger)

Name: Dandelion
Label: "A refreshing, well-rounded ale with dandelion natural flavour"
Brewery: Badger
ABV: 4.5%

Rating: "A fine and dandy ale" = true

Game: Defeated the Collectors, Mass Effect 2 finished.  Just in time because Bioshock 2 has arrived closely followed by Dante's Inferno.  Both awesome so far. Dante's Inferno is surpassing expectations - the only game I've seen where it rains burning people, there are waterfalls of people and people are impaled on spikes. Hell never looked so cool!

Goliath (Wychwood)

Name: Goliath
Label: "The beer to slay a mighty thirst"
Brewery: Wychwood
ABV: 4.2%

Rating: New year, new label.  Some people don't rate Goliath that highly - the fools.

Game: Nearly thirty hours into Mass Effect 2 now. Long way still to go too. Dante's Inferno and Bioshock 2 arriving next week - some late nights coming up I think so I'm going to be even more tired at work than normal for the next few weeks/months. Screw work, its sucks anyway (it doesn't really - I like work, if it wasn't for work I'd probably be a hermit).